2025 NBA FINALS: #1 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #4 Indiana Pacers (Series tied 1-1)

[Eightnineborn]

Isnt the game on abc ?

[50yrceltsfan]

Indiana has to take this game 2 as a GAME 7 as if their lives depends upon it.


If they lose this game, I really don't see them winning the championship.

Even if they lose, they still will have home court over the remaining 5 games.

[Eightnineborn]

Isnt the game today wtf ?(

[Eightnineborn]

Can someone tell me why the game isnt on ???

[Eightnineborn]

OH FK! Game is tomoro!!!? I messed up. I have to work tomorrow my lord

[KyRo23]

Isnt the game on abc ?

Isnt the game today wtf ?(

Damn bro was ready as hell to watch tomorrows game

[Eightnineborn]

Isnt the game on abc ?

Isnt the game today wtf ?(

Damn bro was ready as hell to watch tomorrows game

Dude i cancelled a trip to watch the game, got entire family out, made a great breakfast and turned the tv on. LMAO. I cant believe it. And I have work tomorrow during game time. FML

[Heat3]

Isnt the game on abc ?

Isnt the game today wtf ?(

Damn bro was ready as hell to watch tomorrows game

I'm watching money in the bank and thought I was missing the game too

[SA37]

Spoiler:

SGA is a top 3 player in the league and he’s not 3.

We'll have to agree to disagree.

If the NBA held a draft of the entire league, I think Jokic goes 1st and Giannis goes 2nd. From there it's preference, but I think a lot of GMs would take Luka, Wemby, and Edwards 3-5, although not necessarily in the order I listed. Were it not for injury concerns, Kwahi and Embiid potentially go ahead of SGA at 6 & 7, but those injury concerns are there so I don't see SGA going lower than 6th.

? Embid and Edwards above sga? Lmao

I know people can suffer from recency bias, but Embiid finished 2nd, 2nd, and 1st in MVP voting from 2021-2023. When healthy, he's a candidate to make the all-NBA both overall and defense since he's capable of putting up 30+ and 10+ per game. If he were healthy, the only reason not to pick him over SGA is because he is a bitch whereas SGA seems to be a fabulous teammate.

Edwards could absolutely be selected over SGA depending on the GM/franchise.

[xBulletproof]

Stats are for people who don't watch & understand the game. If you did, you would realize that Haliburton wasn't only bad, he was a detriment to his team in the 2nd half until that last shot. OKC was literally hunting him on offense because he can't guard anybody. And Carlisle took the ball out of his hands because he wasn't getting anything done. He was the worst Pacer on the floor in the 2nd half. Until the shot.

And hey, he is the hero. And rightfully so. You make game winning shots, everything is forgiven. But sucked up until that point.

It's kind of funny, this was said to me in the last thread. Didn't have the numbers yet, but with Haliburton as the defender of the screener 16 times, OKC scored 14 points (0.875 PPP). That's actually not great results for hunting a player. Not that it matters though, I'm sure those stats are for people who don't understand the game. That's what I thought at the time, but sometimes live impressions don't mesh with the #'s, so I didn't say anything.

It was just a weird criticism of a guy who rebounded well, and held up defensively pretty well who has struggled in the past at doing those things. Oh and hit the game winning shot, but whatever.

[Los_29]

We'll have to agree to disagree.

If the NBA held a draft of the entire league, I think Jokic goes 1st and Giannis goes 2nd. From there it's preference, but I think a lot of GMs would take Luka, Wemby, and Edwards 3-5, although not necessarily in the order I listed. Were it not for injury concerns, Kwahi and Embiid potentially go ahead of SGA at 6 & 7, but those injury concerns are there so I don't see SGA going lower than 6th.

? Embid and Edwards above sga? Lmao

I know people can suffer from recency bias, but Embiid finished 2nd, 2nd, and 1st in MVP voting from 2021-2023. When healthy, he's a candidate to make the all-NBA both overall and defense since he's capable of putting up 30+ and 10+ per game. If he were healthy, the only reason not to pick him over SGA is because he is a bitch whereas SGA seems to be a fabulous teammate.

Edwards could absolutely be selected over SGA depending on the GM/franchise.

Naw, there isn’t a GM alive that’d take Embiid and/or Ant over SGA. No one really cares about Embiid finishing 2nd in MVP voting or winning it because they’ve seen him in the playoffs the past 8 years and it’s not pretty. SGA has already had more playoff success than Embiid despite being much younger.

[GreenBloodedC]

OKC could blow the Pacers our, or the Pacers could go back to Indy up 2-0. I would not be surprised w either outcomes.

[MMyhre]

We'll have to agree to disagree.

If the NBA held a draft of the entire league, I think Jokic goes 1st and Giannis goes 2nd. From there it's preference, but I think a lot of GMs would take Luka, Wemby, and Edwards 3-5, although not necessarily in the order I listed. Were it not for injury concerns, Kwahi and Embiid potentially go ahead of SGA at 6 & 7, but those injury concerns are there so I don't see SGA going lower than 6th.

? Embid and Edwards above sga? Lmao

I know people can suffer from recency bias, but Embiid finished 2nd, 2nd, and 1st in MVP voting from 2021-2023. When healthy, he's a candidate to make the all-NBA both overall and defense since he's capable of putting up 30+ and 10+ per game. If he were healthy, the only reason not to pick him over SGA is because he is a bitch whereas SGA seems to be a fabulous teammate.

Edwards could absolutely be selected over SGA depending on the GM/franchise.

This is just a bull-load of crap, those teams should be glad ur not a GM at least, and I am referring to the Embiid talk, the guy currently has his whole career in total jeopardy and you want to draft him over a younger MVP, its a clown show take honestly. Even if they were healthy SGA has already done better this postseason than anything Embiid has done.

[durden_tyler]

OKC could blow the Pacers our, or the Pacers could go back to Indy up 2-0. I would not be surprised w either outcomes.

It's likely a blowout for the Thunder. The OKC has proven that they can respond to these bad losses with a bang-- that happened in Game 2 vs the Nuggets. Heck even again the Grizzlies when they were down big, they just wanted that series to end ASAP and delivered that comeback win even though they did not need to.

[ArksNetsSince99]

OKC could blow the Pacers our, or the Pacers could go back to Indy up 2-0. I would not be surprised w either outcomes.

Well it’s not like there is a third option

Untill Silver change the rules and game could end in a tie

[jc23]

feels like its been 2 weeks since game 1.

[MoneyTalks41890]

I think there’s still a finals series going on, if I didn’t dream that.

Momentum certainly not going to be much of a factor.

[BrianInPhilly]

I think emotion / gut wise I can see the “OKC may route” take .. but logically with reasoning I just don’t see it NOT being a close game. For a few main reasons:

1) Pacers have history this playoffs of not letting up in G2 after winning G1
2) Pacers identity is staying grounded, not being “too high” after wins. Even after Game 1
3) Pacers played better as Game 1 went along, in 2nd half. They most likely got their 1st half jitters / bad play out of the way so logically seems unlikely to reappear.

Brain tells me spread is way too high at OKC -11. Should be close. Pacers have rarely gotten blown out this playoffs.

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[Nuntius]

We'll have to agree to disagree.

If the NBA held a draft of the entire league, I think Jokic goes 1st and Giannis goes 2nd. From there it's preference, but I think a lot of GMs would take Luka, Wemby, and Edwards 3-5, although not necessarily in the order I listed. Were it not for injury concerns, Kwahi and Embiid potentially go ahead of SGA at 6 & 7, but those injury concerns are there so I don't see SGA going lower than 6th.

? Embid and Edwards above sga? Lmao

I know people can suffer from recency bias, but Embiid finished 2nd, 2nd, and 1st in MVP voting from 2021-2023. When healthy, he's a candidate to make the all-NBA both overall and defense since he's capable of putting up 30+ and 10+ per game. If he were healthy, the only reason not to pick him over SGA is because he is a bitch whereas SGA seems to be a fabulous teammate.

Edwards could absolutely be selected over SGA depending on the GM/franchise.

Yes but you should take health into account.

[SA37]

? Embid and Edwards above sga? Lmao

I know people can suffer from recency bias, but Embiid finished 2nd, 2nd, and 1st in MVP voting from 2021-2023. When healthy, he's a candidate to make the all-NBA both overall and defense since he's capable of putting up 30+ and 10+ per game. If he were healthy, the only reason not to pick him over SGA is because he is a bitch whereas SGA seems to be a fabulous teammate.

Edwards could absolutely be selected over SGA depending on the GM/franchise.

Yes but you should take health into account.

100%, and in a previous post I said you had to (both him and Kawhi). It's the same with age, which is why I didn't list Curry as a possible pick in front of SGA.

My main point here is that SGA is great, but part of his success is about team construction and system. When you remove that, I don't think he's top-3, just like I don't think Haliburton is top-10. That is what I was originally responding to.